From the ByteSize newsletter, Tuesday 4th November 2025:

"On this day in 1952, Remington Rand put their UNIVAC computer on live TV to predict the 1952 presidential election. UNIVAC nailed Eisenhower's landslide victory after just 3 million votes. The stunt worked brilliantly—people started calling all computers "UNIVACs," it landed on Superman comics, and sparked the election prediction industry. Today, we have AI that struggles with basic counting but can write poetry about server downtime. Progress!"

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